Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

In this brilliant, evocative novel, Greg Bear takes the reader into a strangely familiar, near-future world — and shatters our conceptions of perfection, punishment, and the elusive nature of the human soul.

One is ultimately awed... it may be the most ambitious novel I've ever read. — Washington Post Book World

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